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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico Next, we decided to take some more pictures and tour some of the beautiful buildings on the edges of the Zocalo.
This is the Palacio Nacional, the National Palace. Isn't it beautiful! From the balcony
above the main entrance, the Mexican President makes his annual speeches. He was not there when we were there.
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico This is in the courtyard of the Palacio Nacional. Huge and beautiful! |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico You could walk through the main courtyard, through an archway, and
come into another outside courtyard at the back of the building.
It was beautifully landscaped and very tranquil. This is where the
President stays when he is in the city. |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico This is upstairs in the Palacio Nacional. Notice more of the beautiful
murals painted by Diego Rivera. They really are something else! |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico We took so many pictures of the murals, we had to restrain ourselves
and just include our favourite ones... Enjoy! |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico Also in the Palacio Nacional, this room displayed important
historical documents and items from Mexico's tumultuous past. The
room was adjacent to the Legislative Assembly Room. This room was beautiful...
The wallpaper you see is
actually all cloth, it was very striking and look at that floor! |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico A painting of the national symbols you find on the Mexican Flag...the
eagle and the snake... |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico This is the Legislative Assembly Room, it was like stepping back in time. It was very elegant and powerful looking. It looked like they took care of serious business here... |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico This area was really something else. We were on our way to
another Cathedral and we came upon this smaller zocalo and this area set
up for business. The business conducted here was incredible, and
talk again about stepping back in time!!! They are modern day
scribes, with typewrites and ancient printing presses and machines.
Also notice the gentleman in the foreground with his hands on the
typewriter, that was his job, he would sit there and wait until someone
needed his services. We really enjoyed seeing this and wish we had
taken more pictures. This photo didn't turn out very well and did not
really depict all that was going on there. I think we were just
mesmerized by all of the activity and forgot to take more pictures. |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico This is the Secretaria de Educacion Publica building and it houses 120
large fresco panels painted by Diego Rivera in the 1920's. He and
several other young artists, were commissioned by Jose Vasconcelos, the
post-revolution Minister of Education, in the 20's to decorate numerous
public buildings with large murals to convey a new sense of Mexico's past
and future. This building was a former convent... |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico More magnificent murals and look at those incredible solid wood doors!
Just beautiful... |
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Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico This building was magnificent, pictures just cannot show how beautiful the architecture was. For example, on these corner areas look at the beautiful detail in the carvings... |
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Now we go to visit one of our favorite archeological sites, located north
of Mexico City. We hope you enjoy Teotihuacan as much as we did... |
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The was the most magnificent structure here, The Pyramid of the
Sun. It is definitely the tallest pyramid we have ever climbed.
We were even able to find the satellite image of it on Google Earth. |
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Between the Pyramid of the Sun and the second largest structure, The
Pyramid of the Moon, there is a long causeway called The Avenue of the Dead.
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There is no way to describe just how tall the Pyramid of the Sun
was...hopefully some of the following pictures will give you an idea of it
size. |
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From a terrace part way up... this is the view of the avenue and the
Pyramid of the Moon...this is a very large site... |
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You can see the town of San Juan Teotihuacan in the distance... the place
were we are staying in the RV Park... |
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This is a view in the other direction up the avenue, away from the Pyramid of the
Moon. Again, you can see this is going to be a big day for exploring this
very large site... |
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Pyramid of the Moon in the distance... |
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Looking back at the Pyramid of the Sun... we actually climbed that!! |
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Walking up the Avenue of the Dead, we stopped to climb and look at a
number of buildings along the way. It is interesting to point out,
as we may have in the past, how they put little rocks in the mortar, between the larger
rocks. And then they often stuccoed over them... interesting...
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this place, sometimes, they only did a trail of the little rocks in the
mortar from the ground level,
weaving their way up through a path of rocks to the top...seeming to have no
rhyme or reason... |
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And now for the Pyramid of the Moon, the second largest structure here,
and almost as impressive. It is situated right at the head of the
Avenue of the Dead... Beautiful! |
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| As Part 4 of August comes to a close, we are only part
way through our wonderful day at the archeological site of Teotihaucan.
Join us in Part 5, as we continue our tour....
Click here to read the next segment of
this Travel Log Series |
